>On the other hand, there are several useful things that could be done in
image
>code if you want to avoid that. Certainly a plugin for the compression
seems
>sensible. Assuming you want to pass a commandline parameter in to specify
VNC
>instead of local display (you could also do it quite nicely just by using
a
>config file via the Smalltalk>readDocumentFile method) you could create an
>instance of VNCDisplayScreen instead of a DisplayScreen. Override
#beDisplay so
>you don't call the prim (the VM can easily be modified so that no window
is
>even created until & unless the prim is called - it works very nicely on
Acorn)
>and add something like #doVNCDisplay to the class and a null
implementation to

How hard would it be to take this mechanism a step further so that multiple
OS windows could be managed by a Squeak image?  This would go a long way
towards providing VisualWorks style window features.  I'm practically
drooling.  ;-)

-Carl